Saturday, May 23, 2009

Greetings from Berlin!

I wanted to put sth up when I was in estonia and Latvia, but I was too tired to do anything beyond simple facebooking and checking of email. Traveling is fun, but its equally tiring. Especially with the heavy luggage..And so, I've decided that the last sentence that I would ever like to hear is "since you like traveling so much....."

i'm so very irritated with that big suitcase of mine..it weighed 7kg even w/o putting anything in. Tts so unfairly heavy. And I hate ryanair. I really regret booking that stupid airlines, because there were so many restrictions involved. And after all the taxes and additional charges, the airfare didnt seem as budget as it should be. I'm counting down to the day of the last Ryanair flight.

To think I still have 25kg of luggage with me (including the 7kg weight of the suitcase) after sending back home 9.4kg of stuff in Finland and 9.66kg in Tallinn. I wonder why there seemed to be more stuff now than that I came with. Hmm...
The 2 metropol(e) hotels were fine, and the apartment that I'm staying in now, is great too. I hope there are more good accommodations to come.

I didnt know Latvia and Estonia were part of Russia last time, and I'm so fascinated by the Russian Dolls that were sold in the souvenir shops. I was really so tempted to buy them, but I thot we already have 2 sets at home. They were more expensive than those sold in Russia anyway.

I have many many photos, but I'm so lazy to upload them to facebook. and I'm too tired as well. Its gonna be a long day tmr, so.....zzzz.....

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

i feel as if i'm standing at a cross-road junction, with the Merlion on the left and Statue of Liberty on the right. I know they can't be compared..but the analogy is significant and apt.

its always easy to make decisions for others..but not for yourself.

time time time..if a day consists of only 6hours..how fast time would pass wouldn't it? i hope not to get a favourable reply from them..so that the decision would be made FOR me.
argh..i still cant get over the fact that one can have a wishlist of 20 over items for her bday. so what if its your 21st bday? that doesnt mean u really expect to receive 21 bday prezzies right! i really wonder..if you've got so many things that u want, why dun u buy them urself? its rude to ask pple for gifts, isnt it? and its even ruder to be selfish..to ask a skinnier person to wake up at 5am to jog long dist wif you just becos u wanna lose weight..i think my fren would kill me if i were to do that. in the 1st place, i wont be waking up at 5am. i think that is probably the time i just went to bed.

now i understood why pple refrained from using the umbrella even thou its raining. my umbrella almost flew away this aftn! my goodness..the wind was so strong!!! i was holding on to it real tight and i could feel that my dear umbrella was on the verge of either flying away or breaking. but i was holding on to papers on my hand and i didnt wanna put them in my bag cos its such a big stack (of rough paper. haha)..if not i;d have done without my brolly. argh.

just now i created a facebook quiz of 8 qns. ys got 100%, qifen got 75% and grace got a pathetic 37%. LOL. and if u think 37% is bad, wait til you score 25%. and thatw as exactly wat i did in grace's quiz. hahaha. i had my revenge. i realised that there are so many hundreds of things that I could have asked..but somehow i had difficulty coming up with the mere 8 qns. hahaha.

andrea tried to bake apple pie w/o a mixer for the 2nd time. and this time round, she broke the big wooden mixing spoon. LOL. such violence. she said she'd be cooking on 13th may night..and asked if i'd be joining. i'd like to..but i have a stupid nightmare paper the next morning..but i still promised to join anyway. argh..that nightmare..the horribly horrible nightmare..i hate all those E fields B fields..whatever field..even the school soccer/rugby fields sucked!! so muddy and dirty !@#$%^&!!! hahaha.

last night, i was so very bored from mugging, i started to plan what i'd be doing in the years to come. haha. how interesting. i wanna be an air stewardess by the age of 26, and be the front desk officer of any big hotel at the age of 31 (if they still want me, and i'm not too old for that) and after that, i wanna be a teacher for the rest of my life. i guess experiencing 4 kinds of jobs is enuf..what more can i be? an engineer? err..most probably not. i'd rather be a waitress than an engineer. working with people is always better than working with WORK. if SIA doesn't want me, then i'll join tiger airways or any budget airline that wants me. If Ritz Carlton doesnt hire me, Holiday Inn is still better than nth (BUT NOT HOTEL81). haha.
if only things can go according to plan, then i'd be quite contented.

that email that i received. it was a moment of joy and a period of ponder. there are so many issues to consider, but yet its such a good opportunity. but am i not tired of living away from my loved ones? hmm...anyway nothing's confirmed. i dun even have the least bit of details as to whats going on. so just have to be patient...

Saturday, May 09, 2009

i have just finished the last of Heart of Greed-Moonlight Resonance. Tonight i shall embark on the journey in search for the long lost Return of the Pearl Princess. Somehow the title sounds a bit weird to me. Correct me if I've made a mistake.

That day when i was on the bus, i saw this mother with her 2 sons.somehow it got me thinking what it would be like if I have a much much younger sister. I would probably bring her out very often, to Ks, to the malls, to eat and to fetch her back and forth from school. I wonder if she'd want to tag along with me to my gathering with frens..i'm sure my frens wont mind if i bring my sister along. They would welcome her, i guess. Last time I didnt really tag along when my sisters went out. They didn't offer to bring me out very often when i was in Primary School..i think my fingers and toes are enough for me to count with. I only rmb going out with my mum most of the time. WHY SIA!!! I still can rmb once in P5 when my 1st sis and bro-in-law came to fetch my after school becuase mum was busy preparing dinner. Or maybe because they have to work so they didnt fetch me? I can't really rmb, but i think tt sounds logical. LOL.

The sky in Finland is SO amazingly funny! Last night i slept at 3.30am, and the sky was as bright as that in Singapore, at 6.30am. LOL. It seemed as if i sleep when the dawn is breaking and i wake up when the dawn has broken. But it didnt occur to me that the sky has darkened at all last night. Maybe I was too engrossed surfing the net..but subconsciously, i kept having the impression that the sun hasnt set yet then. Anyway, I had to pull down my half-faulty blinds in order to fall asleep.

I havent been sleeping well lately, even thou i knew I should be cos i'm tired. Maybe it was partly my own fault..for getting into deep thoughts before i go to bed. Or maybe I slept too much. Haha. Too bad. And the ciders didnt work. What didnt the 4.7% alcohol work? ZZZ. Oh well ~

I think its drizzling now, andthe wind is strong..but i dun see people carrying their brollys..maybe they're afraid that their umbrellas couldnt withstand the strong wind. Haha. The whole scene just reminds me of the days in Rome. Those good o'rainy days. Haha. I would very much like to go out for a walk now..in this windy weather..but i dun wanna get wet. And i dun wanna spoil my precious Rome-bought brolly, and I dun wanna dirty my new shoes, cos I dun wanna wear my boots cos nobody wears boots now..But guess I would not go out, since i had so many "dun wannas" and i think its time to study. I woke up at 1.30pm and I have wasted 3hours doing practically nth. Haha.

Friday, May 08, 2009

Today's Analog Exam = Waterloo.

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

the sky in finland is ever so beautiful..the clouds, the colour, the sky. if only i can share the same sight with my family and frens.i think i should have taken more than 20 over fotos of the sky, thru the lil small window in my room.

i wonder who invented the word "if". somehow i think this word has made our life filled with more creativity and imagination. IF i have a million dollars..IF i can get 100 marks for all my exams..IF i can travel to the Arctic..."if only" was then used, to make us feel as if we are not tt much of a fantasizer, taking into account how small, we as individuals are. if ONLY i have a million dollars..if ONLY i can get 100 marks for all my exams..if ONLY i can travel to the Arctic...

14 more days in Finland. and i have yet to find out for myself how much it costs to cut hair over here. one day i shall check out the price at the salon downstairs. and i have yet to experience the whole 550 route. one day i shall not alight at Leppavaara and see what Itakeskus is like. maybe that very same day, i'll take a tram around Helsinki and take the rail home..

i'll miss the nice Spring weather, the beautiful sky and the freedom and independence i've had here.

disclaimer: this is not an emo post.

Monday, May 04, 2009

3rd day of hibernation! think I'm going to go crazy le. tmr i might just go out for a breather. for an ice-cream. i was wondering why Andrea said she wanted to go Alepa to get some ice-cream. I'm not an ice-cream person, but i think when u get hot-headed reading some ambiguous lecture notes, guessing if its you or the lect notes that's wrong, you really need so ICE to cool yourself down. lol.

almost everybody has ended their exams. except me. :(

i was reminded of driving again. the thot of it really sends shivers down my spine. i really hate the feeling of stress when i'm in the circuit. its bad enuf to give me consecutive nightmares.

i accidentally chanced upon KXXXXXL's blog. i saw her photos with that hateful OXXN. argh..i feel so disgusted by both of them. the gal is a horrible flirt! the way she dresses, the poses that she had..worst: she's been tgther wif her BF for 2years already. and yet she can still behave so scandalously! and the same goes for that guy.. to behave so flirtatiously with a gal who has a bf for 2 years. I shall ignore him the next time he shows up on my msn window. i dun wanna chat with a flirt. and i dun wanna to be flirted by a flirt cos I"M NO FLIRT! argh..

change, changes, changed. how do we cope with changes? (who moved my cheese?) do we reject them, or do we welcome and embrace them wif joy and anticipation? i choose the latter. :)

omg. i'm just reminded that i forgot to reply a sms that was sent to me 5h ago. how forgetful. somehow, i'm reminded of the phrase by our beloved, dramatic Mrs Wong: "HOW CONVENIENT". LOL!!! "WHAT DO YOU TAKE ME FOR?!!"-granted. hahahaha...

Saturday, May 02, 2009

i rmb i wanted to blog sth last nite..but i was lazy. now i seemed to have forgotten abt the content i wanted to post. :(

the last couple of days here in Finland. 17 more days, 4 more grocery trip, 4 more papers, 1 more laundry..and I'll say goodbye to Finland for good. its amazing how time flies..it seems like a while ago when i was still cursing that stupid Nmandi for screwing up the Lapland trip. and it too was a while ago when we were submitting our application for INSTEP. and now, we were almost almost abt to leave the place.

last nite, i dreamt abt me back in Singapore and setting of for my 3-wks Europe trip on 19 May from home. LOL. what a dream.

how did i spend my wappu? meaningful i would say. slping for half a day, trying to study for a bit of the remaining and playing comp for majority of the remaining half day. ys and flc joined in the crowd in Helsinki. heard that it was crowded. haha. finally there's some civilization in this quiet lil' city.

on the other side of the globe, gy went hall exp wif the hall pple. not sure if it was due to the infrequent travelling, he was worried abt some stupid packing stuff. tsk tsk tsk. it gets on my nerves when i see guys being indecisive and un-manly.

i bought apple cider for the 2nd time. they checked my ID. all of a sudden i wondered if the legal age to buy alcohol is 18 or 21. wat if its 21? will i be jailed for buying alcohol cos i'm underaged?

exams are coming. almost all the time, i can say that exams are coming. this thurs. OMG OMG OMG. i dun wanna fail sia..but to me, its really hard. esp field and analog. and tts 2 outta 4 papers. i hope i had passed the 1st HRM paper..cos i really dun think i can manage to memorise anything much wif field paper on the same day. i seriously hate those stuff!!! u cant understand how much i hate and dislike them. i wonder if i even have the foundation there..or am i not much better off than fabian low?

there are things i ought to know, but i don't know.
those are the things i hate to know.
so i pick up my notes and force myself to know.
but i still find myself struggling to know.
the feeling of reluctance, exasperation, frustration..
how would you know?